Ralph Lauren quietly shuttered its two-year-old 20,000-square-foot store last week. Other brands are expected to close boutiques in a city that has lost its luster for cash-rich mainland Chinese tourists.

The Four Seasons has long been a mega lunch watering hole, but Tuesday night, any real power player worth his or her weight in headlines descended upon the Grill Room for a cocktail party hosted by Dixon and Arriana Boardman in honor of A. Alfred…

Practically every blue chip name turned out Tuesday as Saks Fifth Avenue, along with the old school charity group the Colleagues, presented the 19th annual spring luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, featuring an Oscar de la Renta…

March comps were up 5.2 percent, and Chico’s wants to keep the momentum going by growing direct sales, expanding square footage more than 20 percent and focusing on new, less repetitive product offerings in 2007.

Though Dana Vachon’s book, “Mergers and Acquisitions,” has barely been in bookstores a week, this season’s lit “It” kid pondered at his book party Tuesday night who could play a few of the tome’s notable characters on the big screen.

Target Stores plans to expand into fast-growing overseas markets such as India and China within a decade, but sees no advantage to being first, chairman and chief executive officer Robert Ulrich said Wednesday.

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